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Hyperconverged unicorn loses its horn As predicted by The Register last September, HPE has announced it will acquire hyperconverged contender SimpliVity for US$650m in cash.…

Snapdragon biz broke monopoly laws, FTC claims in bombshell lawsuit America's trade watchdog the FTC has sued Qualcomm, alleging the California-based biz trampled over US laws on fair competition.…

Pack your bags Julian, you're off to America, right? In the final days of his administration, President Barack Obama has commuted Chelsea Manning's remaining sentence, meaning she'll be free on May 17, or shortly afterwards.…

Can we just go ahead and call it 'the Samsung device' now? Researchers at Stanford University say they have developed a method for building fire-extinguishing materials into standard lithium-ion batteries.…

Thiel's upstart has the info needed for a Muslim registry Silicon Valley engineers will protest outside the headquarters of data analytics firm Palantir Technologies Wednesday, demanding greater transparency over how its databases may be used by the incoming Trump Administration.…

If you work in any HPC field, don't miss the Frankfurt conference Promo Catch up with the latest developments in high-performance computing at the five-day 2017 ISC conference and exhibition in Frankfurt June 18-22. The theme is high-performance computing, systems and networking, as well as HPC applications in scientific and commercial environments.…

As if backup competition happens to someone else It's news but kind of expected; Veeam has seen almost 30 per cent year-on-year growth in its final 2016 quarter, and full-year revenues of $607.4m. Veeam on.…

Hoping to replicate Big Blue deal with additional partners WANdisco's OEM selling deal with IBM has brought home the Big Blue bacon with total bookings up 72 per cent year-on-year to $15.5m.…

It's kinda easy when all the passwords are 1234567 Hackers achieve a success rate of 0.1 to 2 per cent when reusing stolen credentials to access other sites, according to a new study by Shape Security.…

Follows startup's agreement with Huawei Alluxio, the multi-silo Big Data access accelerating startup which did a deal with Huawei last year, has signed a similar one with Dell EMC for its ECS product.…

Oh, well, that's all right then Barts Health NHS Trust has blamed the disruption of its IT systems last Friday on a trojan horse infection and not ransomware.…

London base in global expansion Oracle will open a cloud region in the UK that's based in London and plans to have three data centres serving the region by mid-2017.…

Bulky, low-capacity spinner built for SMBs It's back to the future for the latest Seagate large form factor disk with a low capacity.…

The real plan's under wraps? Analysis The reality of red tape might mean the UK’s exit from the EU will take longer, and be softer, than the Prime Minister outlined today.…

CD luminary Dave Farley to take the stage REG EVENTS The agenda for Continuous Lifecycle is filling up, with four workshops confirmed, and our first keynote speaker revealed.…

Need to give it a good, proper scrutinising, don't you? A House of Lords committee has called for greater detail on how the government intends to introduce online porn age verification plans in the Digital Economy Bill.…

Partnership will plug LoRa and general IoTness Dutch Internet of Things wrangler Teleena has teamed up with Nokia-born IoT software spinoff Cumulocity to offer an end-to-end IoT service.…

It had to happen sooner or sooner.... price parity with the US dollar Apple has confirmed to developers it is raising app store prices by up to a third, more than countering any downward currency swing in the British pound since the Brexit vote in June.…

Makes its Brentrance in the South and West regions Microsoft's slow rollout of the full suite of Azure tools in the UK has taken another step forwards today, with Automation arriving in both of its UK regions.…

One was hit 19 times over 12 months A third (30 per cent) of NHS trusts have been infected by ransomware, with one – the Imperial College Healthcare in London – suffering 19 attacks in just 12 months.…

Or why the customer isn't always right Engineers and designers hate committee-led engineering and design, hence the proverbial joke about the camel. And ZTE's effort to allow passing strangers to design and brand a new mobile device perhaps illustrates why.…

Yeah, just don't worry about the 100k plus you've tossed on the bonfire Meg Cynics might say Hewlett Packard Enterprise CEO Meg Whitman is on thin ice when discussing job preservation in the era of AI and robotics given her own track record, but that was the thrust of her speech at Davos.…

Calls for benefits of foreign workers to be recognised Employers have called for a "sensible" immigration programme to recruit and retain overseas talent in a post-Brexit Britain.…

What you don’t know, you can’t look for - obviously Interview In a story about ARM-powered, Ethernet-addressed, object storing disk drives, I said such drives couldn’t carry out image searches at a drive-level because they would be operating "blindfolded". OpenIO says “Rubbish” to that in a blog it wrote ( I exaggerate.)…

Driving assistant gives self-drivers a bit of Lip(Net) When Nvidia popped the bonnet on its Co-Pilot "backseat driver" AI at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show, most onlookers were struck by its ability to lip-read while tracking CES-going "motorists'" actions within the "car".…

Social giant works both sides of news street National elections in the UK and US, and Britain's 2016 referendum on membership of the EU demonstrated the growing power of social media to swing views and win votes.…

Make a cup of tea - or a mocha - before you read this if you want a long and happy life A cup of tea, coffee or even a mocha could extend your life, new research shows.…

Unless you're willing to tolerate the chance of data corruption IBM on Saturday slipped out news of a nasty bug in its VIOS, its Virtual I/O Server that offers virtualisation services on Power Systems under AIX.…

FUDalicious post argues ancient security features are just too risky Microsoft Germany has argued that Windows 7 is no longer "fit" to be used in business.…

Australia, Malaysia and China say no new information on plane's location has been found Australia, Malaysia and China have suspended the search for missing Malaysian airlines flight MH370.…

It's 2017 and developers are still doing really dumb things A security firm has reverse engineered 16,000 Android apps on Google's Play store and found that over 304 contain sensitive secret keys.…

Then hoovered out users' personal data, stole identities galore and spent up big Dutch police are this week warning 20,000 users that their email accounts were hacked after a malicious web developer left backdoors in the sites he built.…

EPA's allegations against Fiat Chrysler become sweary international incident The latest “cheatware” scandal to rock the auto industry has escalated to cause inter-government tension, with Germany and Italy trading snipes over Fiat Chrysler's claims about emissions.…

And fails: the launcher's second stage failed to ignite so it ditched into the sea From plants to pocket-sized radios, Japan has a long history of miniaturisation, but its first attempt to shrink a satellite-launching rocket has ended with the launcher ditching into the sea.…

Your code tested as soon as you send it to GitHub Here's a handy tool from Docker's GitHub repository: a continuous integration library to help manage DataKit projects.…

'Panic Button' could be pressed by miscreants, repeatedly The Rave Panic Button app, designed to allow businesses to summon emergency services, allows miscreants to easily 'swat' targets by making false reports of emergencies says security researcher Randy Westergren.…

Security audit of popular-with-service-providers package produces surprised smiles POP and IMAP mailserver suite Dovecot has passed an extensive audit by hackers, who were able to find only three minor vulnerabilities.…

RPi 3 shrunk into normal and 'lite' Compute Modules for embedded applications The Raspberry Pi Foundation has baked two new Pi.…

Apollo 10 and 17 astronaut, moonwalker, spacewalker, pioneer Eugene Cernan, the last man to leave footprints on the Moon, has died aged 82.…

Nice theory, BAE Systems, now where's the demonstrator? British defence contractor BAE Systems says it has developed a laser-powered "mirage on demand" which can be used to bend the very fabric of the skies to military commanders' whims.…

Blockchain consortia are like the early internet: everyone knows and trusts each other. But when you try to scale ... The financial sector's enthusiasm for blockchain technology might be misplaced, according to a pair of Australian distributed computing experts.…

No amount of innovation will win over a suspicious public Comment A bright-eyed MIT undergraduate implausibly branded "the Mark Zuckerberg of guns" has recycled an age-old solution looking for a problem – the smart gun.…

*California State Governor Peter Thiel, the only tech billionaire to back Donald Trump, is reported to be considering a run for governor of California.…

Startup orbits security VM around vSphere and VSAN unstructured data Analysis Startup DataGravity laid off staff in February last year and subsequently pivoted away from building and selling its Discovery Series array line to building a shipping virtual appliance using its Discovery Series array software as a basis.…

Health Secretary makes a mint. Good for him, right? Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has become one of the UK's richest politicians following the sale of his business which runs course-listing websites.…

Hey Alexa, manage my system! Storage Blockhead Chatbots are flashing up in our future view as something that could improve an admin's lot. Instead of using a GUI with nested and drill-down screen forms to do their job, they'll have a new form of Command Line Interface, only this will be a Chat Line Interface to a chatbot.…

Wants every human computer interaction to be AI-powered The tech sector is currently "worshipping" a handful of artificial intelligence companies, but is yet to show how it will make the technology accessible to and useful for its human end users, Microsoft head Satya Nadella has said.…

Salesforce SMB partner explores deeper waters Salesforce partner Sage Group has signed a trio of firms to its emerging X3 business ERP platform.…

Patient is suspected to have died while system was down The IT system responsible for dispatching ambulances across London has been hit by three outages in the last year, it has emerged.…

Mr Lee jnr ensnared in corruption scandal Samsung's been pulled deeper into "Choi-gate" – the scandal surrounding the South Korean president. Prosecutors in the country today applied for an arrest warrant for Samsung's de facto boss, Lee Jae-yong.…